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- The Variscan orogeny, or Hercynian orogeny, was a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between Euramerica (Laurussia)...
- Caledonian, Alleghenian, Mauritanide and Variscan orogenies. The eastern portions of the range are also called the Variscan Mountains. The Central Pangean Mountains...
- Permian (more than 300 million years old) and therefore deformed during the Variscan Orogeny. Parts of the Sudetes within the Bohemian M****if, Giant Mountains...
- (2002). "Paleozoic evolution of pre-Variscan terranes: From Gondwana to the Variscan collision" (PDF). Variscan-Appalachian dynamics: The building of...
- North Pennines. The majority of the rest of England and Wales north of the Variscan Front are considered to constitute the Avalon composite terrane. Central...
- collided with Laurussia towards the end of the Carboniferous during the Variscan orogeny. The name is taken from Armorica, the Gaulish name for a large...
- of France. It developed since the Tri****ic over remnant uplands of the Variscan orogeny (Hercynian orogeny). The sedimentary basin, no longer a single...
- extension and thinning due to slab rollback of the African Plate. The Variscan orogeny was a result of the collision between the Laurussia and Gondwana...
- restricted to the Messel pit. There it unconformably overlies crystalline Variscan ba****t and its Permian cover (Rotliegend) as well as Eocene volcanic...
- Siberia-Kazakhstania, the latter of which forms Laurasia and the Uralian orogeny. Variscan orogeny continues (these collisions created orogenies, and ultimately Pangaea)...